Featured Story
#TheHolocaust on Social Media
“What if a girl in the Holocaust had Instagram?” The Instagram account @eva.stories is a social media project produced by Israeli tech entrepreneur Mati Kochavi. It launched on May 1, 2019, the day before Yom HaShoah, Israel’s annual Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’...
Interviews
Post-9/11 War Spending Exceeds $8 Trillion | Heidi Peltier of The Costs of War Project
When you put all of that together, these post-9/11 wars have already cost, or will cost, $8 trillion. And that number may continue to rise.
More Stories from The Edge
Media Negligence and Hate Costs LGBTQ Lives
On Sunday, November 20, five people were killed and more than 20 injured in a shooting at the LGBTQ nightclub Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as the club hosted a drag...
How Native Advertising Misleads Readers and Damages Credibility
In 2019, the Massachusetts Attorney General sued Exxon Mobil for deceiving state residents about the company’s contributions to climate change. One exhibit in the lawsuit...
How Demagogues Harness Social Media
Despite clear visual evidence to the contrary, former President Donald Trump and his press secretary, Sean Spicer, insisted that his inauguration crowd had been larger than...
The Case for Transparency Over Objectivity
Earlier this month, James Geary, an editor at Nieman Reports, published a letter calling into question the role of objectivity in journalism. He referenced two stories: In...
#TheHolocaust on Social Media
“What if a girl in the Holocaust had Instagram?” The Instagram account @eva.stories is a social media project produced by Israeli tech entrepreneur Mati Kochavi. It launched...
Journalists Say Better Media Funding Can Contest Rightwing ‘Quagmire of Lies’
A major factor to success during political elections stems from coverage on news and social media, which is why comprehensive election reporting is essential to healthy...
Is the Video Essay a New Avant-Garde?
The recent emergence of what has come to be called the video essay or the videographic essay or the audiovisual essay represents a new cinematic avant-garde. It offers...
Transphobia Is Bad Politics: How Republicans Veered too Far Right on the Campaign Trail
Despite all the economic woes poising them for victory, Republicans were not able to summon the “Red Wave” they were hoping for, resulting in a historic midterm election,...
A Salute to ‘Pedagogy as Encounter: Beyond the Teaching Imperative’
“Pedagogy as Encounter” is an honest, innovative, erudite, and profoundly student-centered work. Naeem Inayatullah embraces the range of human behavior in the classroom,...